After The Fire

By Kaylee Ellison

What happens after survival is no longer the goal?

After the Fire is a raw, intimate poetry collection about the moment clarity replaces endurance. These poems live in the aftermath-after conditional love, after silence used as armor, after learning that pain is not proof of devotion.

Through eight unflinching poems, Kaylee Ellison explores boundaries, nervous-system memory, and the quiet reclamation of self. This is not a book about healing as a performance, nor love as sacrifice. It is about learning the difference between intensity and safety, between being needed and being chosen.

Written with visceral honesty and restraint, After the Fire traces the body's memory of harm while refusing to stay there. It moves toward gentleness without apology, softness without surrender, and trust that returns slowly, on its own terms.

This collection is for anyone who has survived something that reshaped them-and chose to live with intention afterward.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GHJ8LTCW
• ISBN13: 9798278658320
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 26 Pages
• Weight: 0.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"